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Time of India
39 minutes ago
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- Time of India
‘Obama was gang leader': Trump demands DOJ probe after Gabbard's ‘coup' bombshell over 2016 election - The Economic Times Video
US President Donald Trump has called on the Department of Justice to directly target former President Barack Obama, following explosive allegations from an intelligence report released recently. The report, backed by DNI Tulsi Gabbard, accuses Obama-era officials of manipulating intelligence around Russian interference in the 2016 election. Gabbard has issued criminal referrals to the DOJ, claiming a 'treasonous conspiracy' took place under Obama's watch.
The Hill
2 hours ago
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- The Hill
Trump says Obama should be top target in DOJ probe into intel report
President Trump on Tuesday said that former President Obama should be targeted directly by the Department of Justice after his administration's report alleged Obama administration officials manipulated intelligence related to Russian interference in the 2016 election. Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard has sent criminal referrals to the DOJ related to the report released on Friday that asserted the Obama officials engaged in a 'treasonous conspiracy.' When asked in the Oval Office on Tuesday, during a visit with Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., about whom the DOJ should target, Trump pointed to Obama. 'Based on what I read, and I read pretty much what you read, it would be President Obama. He started it,' Trump said. 'And [then-vice president Joe] Biden was there with him and [former FBI director James] Comey was there and [former DNI director James] Clapper, the whole group was there. [Former CIA director John] Brennan. They were all there in a room, right here, this was the room.' He added, 'If you look at those papers, they have him stone-cold and it was President Obama. It wasn't lots of people all over the place, it was them, too. But the leader of the gang was President Obama, Barack Hussein Obama, have you heard of him?' 'He's guilty, it's not a question,' Trump said. 'This was treason, this was every word you can think of.' He added that Gabbard told him that thousands of additional documents would be coming, and he called Obama the 'ringleader.' Friday's memo also cited former officials like Clapper, Brennan and Comey and comes after Trump has for years claimed the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election and whether his campaign colluded with Moscow was a 'hoax.' Trump in March signed a memo ordering the declassification of 'all files related to Crossfire Hurricane,' the name given to the FBI's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. The president on Tuesday also was questioned about Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche reaching out to lawyers of Ghislaine Maxwell, a convicted sex offender and associate of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, to set up a meeting with her. He said he didn't know anything about it but brought up Gabbard's report. 'The witch hunt that you should be talking about if they caught President Obama absolutely cold, Tulsi Gabbard. What they did to this country in 2016, starting in 2016 but going up all the way going up to 2020 and the election, they tried to rig the election and they got caught and they should be very severe consequences for that,' Trump said. Trump also said when he 'caught' former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton but he 'let her off the hook' because she was a wife of a former president. 'It's time to go after people. Obama's been caught directly,' he said. 'What they did in 2016 and in 2020 is very criminal, it's criminal at the highest level so that's really the things you should be talking about.'
Economic Times
9 hours ago
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- Economic Times
The Crime Of The Century: Trump explodes on Truth Social, says Obama manufactured Russia hoax after Tulsi Gabbard releases files
AP President Donald Trump did not hold back on his Truth Social, Tuesday, July 22, by attacking Obama, Hillary and all Democrats through a post. this comes a day after 100-pages of documents published by DNI Tulsi Gabbard exposing "treasonous" intelligence interference amongst Obama-era officials and Obama at the end of 2016. The contention among the governments has increasingly become volatile amid a deep divide, when the country still debates about Russia. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File) President Donald Trump went on full rampage on his Truth Social, on Tuesday, July 22, with a post attacking all democrats at once on his Truth Social. Calling allegations of Russian interference in the US presidential election 2016 when Barack Obama was at the helm 'THE CRIME OF THE CENTURY', Trump called it a major threat to America. Trump's explosive Truth Social post Below is US President Donald Trump's Truth Social post dated July 22, 2025: Obama himself manufactured the Russia, Russia, Russia HOAX. Crooked Hillary, Sleepy Joe, and numerous others participated in this, THE CRIME OF THE CENTURY!. Irrefutable EVIDENCE. A major threat to our Country!!! The post comes after Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard made certain contentious and classified documents public. From July 18-21, Gabbard declassified, and publicly released over 100 pages of documents, including memos and internal assessments, alleging the Obama administration manipulated intelligence in late 2016. What caused this furoreThe office of then-DNI James Clapper on December 7, 2016, stated, "We have no evidence of cyber manipulation of election infrastructure intended to alter results" and "Foreign adversaries did not use cyberattacks on election infrastructure to alter the US Presidential election outcome." Obama's Presidential Daily Brief the next day merely mentioned the "likely" hacking of an Illinois voter registration database, which had "unsuccessfully attempted" in other states and had no bearing on the electoral brief's draft said, "Criminal activity also failed to reach the scale and sophistication necessary to change election outcomes."But once the FBI, under Director James Comey, declared it would "dissent" from the draft's conclusions "based on some new guidance," those results were then led an alternative intelligence report asserting that the Kremlin manipulated the presidential election to Trump's advantage and planned the hacking of DNC emails, thousands of which were ultimately made public by Wikileaks. Several officials, including CIA Director John Brennan, Secretary of State John Kerry, and FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, gathered at the White House on Dec. 9, 2016, where Obama began 'tasking' each to look into 'Russia Election Meddling.' Attorney General Loretta Lynch, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson, National Security Advisor Susan Rice, and White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonogh were also present at the meeting. How Obama's intelligence agencies gradually changed course By early January, 2017, former president, Barack Obama, ordered the CIA, FBI, NSA, and DHS to produce a new intelligence assessment that included detailed information about Russia's involvement in the US presidential race. This assessment ultimately included the now-debunked dossier created by former MI6 spy Christopher that same day, an email from Clapper's executive assistant stated that the new intelligence assessment needed to outline the "tools Moscow used and actions it took to influence the 2016 election."Later, intelligence community leakers told the media that Obama voiced public concerns about hacks impacting the vote-counting process and that officials had "a high level of confidence" that Russian President Vladimir Putin was personally involved in the "U.S. Election Hack."According to a National Security Council document, the participants in the White House meeting also "agreed to recommend sanctioning of certain members of the Russian military intelligence and foreign intelligence chains of command responsible for cyber operations as a response to cyber activity that attempted to influence or interfere with U.S. elections, if such activity meets the requirements." The Intelligence Community Assessment of January, 2017 According to Gabbard, the end result was an Intelligence Community Assessment on January 7, 2017, which "directly contradicted the IC assessments that were made throughout the previous six months."CIA Director John Ratcliffe published a shocking analysis of the 2016 assessment earlier this month, concluding that Clapper, Brennan, and Comey purposefully tainted it for "possible political motive[s]."Later, more than eight years ago, the Trump Justice Department opened an investigation into Brennan and Comey for possible criminal offences connected to the preparation of that data will be sent to the Department of Justice "to deliver the accountability that President Trump, his family, and the American people deserve," Gabbard said in a statement. Gabbard's declassification bombshell The declassification is based on shocking new information unearthed by an Office of the Director of National Intelligence whistleblower who told Clapper that there was "no indication of a Russian threat to directly manipulate the actual vote count through cyber means." The National Intelligence Officer for Cyber pushed the whistleblower to believe the conclusions of the later Obama intelligence assessment, which included Moscow's preference for whistleblower's superior told him, "You need to trust me on this," referring to reports that the informant was "not allowed to see," most likely the Steele dossier. Whistleblower testimony challenges 2017 assessment The whistleblower wrote in one of their emails, "As for the 2017 ICA's judgement of a decisive Russian preference for then-candidate Donald Trump." Based on the material at hand and my professional analytical opinion, I was unable to concur in good documents claim an earlier finding (around September-December 2016) which showed no evidence of direct Russian cyber interference, but Gabbard says intelligence officials suppressed it in favor of a new assessment accusing Russia of meddling to aid of Friday, July 18, Gabbard has called for prosecution against Obama-era officials, namely, James Clapper, John Brennan, Susan Rice, Andrew McCabe, and the man himself, after alleged 'treasonous' intelligence interference. FAQs 1. What did President Trump post on Truth Social on July 22?Trump made a post attacking Democrats, especially during the Obama-era, after DNI Tulsi Gabbard recently declassified several contentious documents in reference to the Russian interference in the 2016 elections.2. What was in those documents?Gabbard released a 100-page document, which essentially claim that intelligence officials suppressed the truth when it came to the 2016 election interference and hence claiming authority.3. Alleged role of whistleblowerThe whistleblower was allegedly threatened by intelligence officers to support unsubstantiated claims of Moscow's interference.4. Why was the January, 2017 Assessment a key detail?Gabbard claimed that this particular assessment had contradicted previous findings from the intelligence officials, then. She claimed those findings were a result of political pressure.5. Who has Tulsi Gabbard called for prosecution? Gabbard has called out the former president, Barack Obama, and Obama-era officials, James Clapper, John Brennan, Susan Rice, Andrew McCabe, alleging they played a role in manipulating intelligence.
Yahoo
a day ago
- Politics
- Yahoo
Obama now 'squarely in Russiagate crosshairs,' journalist Matt Taibbi claims
Former President Obama is now "squarely" in the crosshairs of the Russiagate "scam," journalist Matt Taibbi wrote in a Racket News piece on Saturday, shortly after DNI Tulsi Gabbard's office unleashed a blitz of documents and a memo said to detail the origins of the Trump-Russia collusion narrative. Taibbi quoted an unnamed source in describing Obama as no longer being a "tertiary" character in the "scam" that followed President Trump's 2016 election win over former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. He elaborated on the remark Monday on "America's Newsroom." Obama Officials Admitted They Had No 'Empirical Evidence' Of Trump-russia Collusion: House Intel Transcripts "The last major revelation that came out was that John Brennan and James Comey were the focus of criminal investigations that had been opened by the Justice Department, but these new documents that were released by Tulsi Gabbard… make it clear that the investigation is now aimed at the Obama White House and, in particular, at Barack Obama, because of decisions that were made in early December 2016 to suppress the presidential daily briefing and go ahead and order a new intelligence community assessment that ultimately would have much more aggressive conclusions about Trump and Russia," he told co-host Bill Hemmer. Last Friday, Gabbard declassified documents which she says implicate the former president and members of his national security team who "manufactured and politicized intelligence" to create the narrative that Russia was attempting to influence the 2016 presidential election — despite information from the intelligence community stating otherwise. Read On The Fox News App A declassified copy of the Dec. 8, 2016 presidential daily brief for President Obama obtained by Fox News Digital reads, in part, "We assess that Russian and criminal actors did not impact recent U.S. election results by conducting malicious cyber activities against election infrastructure." It continues: "Russian government-affiliated actors most likely compromised an Illinois voter registration database and unsuccessfully attempted the same in other states." Obama Officials Used Dossier To Probe, Brief Trump Despite Knowing It Was Unverified 'Internet Rumor' A bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee investigation later found that, while Trump may not have accepted Russian help, Russia did meddle in some fashion. The chairman of the Intel Committee at the time — then-Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, who now serves as the top diplomat to the United States under Trump — put out a statement that said, "The committee found absolutely no evidence that then-candidate Donald Trump or his campaign colluded with the Russian government to meddle in the 2016 election. What the committee did find, however, is very troubling. We found irrefutable evidence of Russian meddling." Taibbi said he has heard frequent complaints that the information released by Gabbard had not come out sooner. "A former high-ranking Trump official said [to me] there was, 'So much corruption in the last Trump presidency that this shouldn't have been overlooked, that these documents should have come out,' but the overall sense I get is that everyone's happy that they finally are coming out, and they're looking forward to what is likely to come out this week," he said. Though Obama and his representatives did not respond to Fox News Digital's previous requests for comment, Democratic lawmakers have reacted to the development with their own series of statements. Rep. Jim Himes, D-Conn., a ranking member on the House Intelligence Committee, criticized Gabbard's claims as "baseless." "Few episodes in our nation's history have been investigated as thoroughly as the Intelligence Community's warning in 2016 that Russia was interfering in the election," Himes said in a statement posted to X. "Every legitimate investigation, including the bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee investigation, found no evidence of politicization and endorsed the findings of the 2016 Intelligence Community Assessment." Virginia Sen. Mark Warner, ranking Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, accused Gabbard of "weaponizing her position to amplify the president's election conspiracy theories." Fox News' Brooke Singman contributed to this article source: Obama now 'squarely in Russiagate crosshairs,' journalist Matt Taibbi claims
India Today
2 days ago
- Politics
- India Today
Obama handcuffed, put in jail: Trump posts AI video amid poll fraud charge
Donald Trump's latest target seems to be former US President Barack Obama. Days after his administration accused Obama of election fraud in 2016, Trump shared an AI-generated video showing the former President being arrested by the FBI inside the White House Oval video, posted by Trump on his Truth Social platform, has gone viral and invited backlash as well, with critics calling it "provocative" and one terming it a bid to distract from the Epstein one is above the law," reads the caption of the video, created using deepfake IN THE VIDEO? The video starts with Obama saying that no one, especially the President, is above the law. It then shows a montage of various Democratic leaders, including former US President Joe Biden, saying, "No one is above the law".The next segment shows a clown version of the famous Pepe the Frog meme in what seemed an attempt to mock the statements of the then shows Obama being handcuffed and arrested by FBI sleuths inside the Oval Office as Trump gives a sheepish smile. Seconds later, Obama is seen wearing a prison orange jumpsuit and behind TRUMP-OBAMA TUSSLEThe video of Obama comes at a time when Trump's Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard has accused the former President of attempting to undermine Trump's victory in the 2016 declassified documents, Gabbard claimed senior officials during Obama's regime "manufactured" and politicised alleged intel assessments to show that Trump's win was due to Russian also called for Obama and former senior US national security officials to be prosecuted, which has also been echoed by Trump and Obama were seen earlier this year engaged in a friendly conversation at former President Jimmy Carter's funeral in of their unexpected moment of bonhomie went viral on social media. Trump later commented on the moment, saying, "They look like two people that like each other. And we probably do."- EndsTune InMust Watch
